We covered Shooters Bottom, and fields opposite, bottom of Birling lane, Belle Tout wood and scrub, Old Trapping Area and the Radio Mast bushes. LP covered several sites on the Headland. GG, KH and RES were also birding on the Headland. RE was trapping in Whitbread Hollow. LP returned at 1.30 pm for an hour raptor watch.
Good numbers of Common Whitethroats with smaller numbers of other common night migrants. In Whitbread Hollow it started very slow but suddenly migrants appeared around 10.00 am. Still very little overhead movement which included 5 Yellow Wagtails E, 2 Swifts E and very small numbers of hirundines.
Combined Totals:
Sparrowhawk 2 Headland
Common Buzzard 1 plus 14 in a kettle on the raptor watch
Kestrel 2
Tawny Owl 1 Hollow
Swift 2 E
Sand Martin 3 E
Swallow 20 E
Tree Pipit 1 flyover
Yellow Wagtail 7 E
Robin 8 Headland
Black Redstart 1 Headland
Common Redstart 4 Headland
Whinchat 4 Headland
Song Thrush 4 Shooters Bottom
Grasshopper Warbler 4 Hollow
Sedge Warbler 2 (1 Shooters Bottom and 1 Hollow)
Reed Warbler 8 (2 Shooters Bottom and 6 Hollow)
Lesser Whitethroat 8 (7 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat c110 (c80+ Headland and 30 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 8 (2 Old Trapping Area and 6 Hollow)
Blackcap 54 (4 Headland and 50 Hollow)
Chiffchaff 2 Hollow
Willow Warbler 35(20 Headland and 15 Hollow)
Goldcrest 3 Hollow
Starling flock of 120 in Top fields
Goldfinch 50 Headland
